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Name: Kabardian Type: Language Alternate Names: East Circassian; Beslenei; Upper Circassian; Kabardino-Cherkes; Kabardo-Cherkes Spoken in: USA, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey Number of speakers: 520,000 in Russian Federation (2002 Census). Does not include 60,517 Cherkess in the Russian Federation (2002 Census). Population total all countries: 1,632,500. Ethnic population: 519,958 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 650000 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 1012000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: kbd Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: North West Caucasian Parent Subgroup: Circassian (circ) Child Dialect: Greater Kabardian; Malka; Kuban; Beslenei; Lesser Kabardian; Mozdok; Cherkes; Beslenej; Baksan (kbd-gre)

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UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed